W

Wafer

A thin slice of semiconductor material used as the substrate for the fabrication of integrated circuits.

hardware

WASM in Blockchain(WASM)

WebAssembly; a binary instruction format that allows high-performance code to run in blockchain environments.

web

Waterfall Model

A linear and sequential approach to software development where each phase must be completed before the next one begins.

dev

Weaviate

An open-source vector database that allows you to store data objects and vector embeddings from your favorite ML-models.

ai

Web3

An idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, and token-based economics.

web

Web Application Firewall(WAF)

A specific type of firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web application.

network

WebAssembly(Wasm)

A binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine, designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages.

web

WebAuthn

A web standard published by the W3C that allows for passwordless authentication using public-key cryptography.

security

Web Bluetooth API

A browser API that allows web applications to communicate with nearby Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices.

web

Web Components

A suite of different technologies allowing you to create reusable custom elements with their functionality encapsulated away from the rest of your code.

web

WebGL

A JavaScript API for rendering high-performance interactive 3D and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins.

web

WebGPU

A future web standard and JavaScript API for accelerated graphics and machine learning, designed to succeed WebGL.

web

Webhooks

A method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web page or web application with custom callbacks.

web

Web MIDI API

A browser API that allows web applications to enumerate, select, and interact with MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) devices.

web

WebP

A modern image format developed by Google that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web.

web

Webpack

A powerful and highly configurable module bundler for modern JavaScript applications.

web

Web Performance Optimization(WPO)

The field of knowledge and practice focused on increasing the speed and efficiency of websites and web applications.

web

WebRTC

An open-source project and browser API that enables real-time communication (audio, video, and data) directly between browsers without plugins.

web

Web Share API

A browser API that allows web applications to use the native sharing capabilities of the user's device.

web

WebSockets

A computer communications protocol providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.

web

Web Speech API

A browser API that enables web applications to incorporate voice data into their interface, supporting both speech recognition and synthesis.

web

WebTorrent

A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop, written entirely in JavaScript.

web

Web USB API

A browser API that allows web applications to communicate with USB devices.

web

Web Worker

A JavaScript script executed from an HTML page that runs in the background, independently of other scripts that may also have been executed from the same HTML page.

web

Wei

The smallest unit of Ether (ETH), used to measure values on the Ethereum network.

web

Weight Decay

A regularization technique that adds a small penalty to the loss function based on the size of the model's weights, discouraging them from becoming too large.

ai

Whale

An individual or entity that holds a significantly large amount of a particular cryptocurrency.

web

Whaling

A form of spear phishing targeted at high-profile individuals, such as CEOs, CFOs, or other senior executives.

security

Wide Area Network(WAN)

A network that extends over a large geographical distance, often connecting multiple LANs across cities, countries, or continents.

network

Wi-Fi

A family of wireless networking technologies based on the IEEE 802.11 standards, used for local area networking and internet access.

network

Wireless Sensor Network(WSN)

A group of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors for monitoring and recording the physical conditions of the environment and organizing the collected data at a central location.

network

Wireshark

A widely-used network protocol analyzer that lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level.

security

WordPiece

A subword tokenization algorithm similar to BPE, but instead of frequency, it chooses merges that maximize the likelihood of the training data.

ai

Workbox

A set of libraries developed by Google that simplify the process of adding offline support and caching to web applications using Service Workers.

web

Workload Identity

A mechanism that allows cloud workloads (like pods in Kubernetes) to authenticate with other cloud services using their own identity, rather than shared secrets.

cloud

Wrapped Token

A tokenized version of another cryptocurrency that exists on a different blockchain.

web

Write-back Cache

A cache writing strategy where data is only written to the cache initially, and main memory is updated only when the cache line is evicted.

hardware

Write Buffer

A buffer used to queue write requests to a slower storage medium, such as RAM or a disk, to prevent the faster processor from stalling.

hardware

Write-through Cache

A cache writing strategy where data is written to both the cache and the main memory simultaneously.

hardware